Tailor

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The word "tailor" means " The art of cutting" in many different languages.

Tailors make capes, hats, stockings, shirts, coats, weskits, breeches, stays, and gowns.

Also ladys pockets.

The Tailor used to do mantua making. But in 1675 mantua making

got a special trade for they had to be draped which a tailor was not skilled

at doing.

The tailor had every young costumers.

Tailors are usually a man.

There were more tailors than any other trade in Williamsburg

in the early 1770s.



Measuring a lady for stays.

This picture is from www.history.org

Tools

Tailor would have used when make clothes. This picture is from www.history.org